Brewer's: Dusiens

The name given by the Gauls to those demons that produce nightmares.

“Dæmones quos `duscios' Galli nuncupant”-

St. Augustine: De Civitate Dei, chap. xxiii.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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